Category: Children Tales

Children Tales, Working with Children

What I learnt from 6 months in Nursery. (Part 2)

Approximate reading time is 30 min All eyes on you Towards the end of the last term, I took an assembly with my nursery children and the two reception classes. At the end of the assembly I put up a YouTube video of one of the songs that we always sing and then I sat …

Anger, Children Tales, Facing Fears, Gratitude

What I learnt from 6 months of teaching Nursery. (Part 1)

Approximate Reading time – 25min When I signed up with my supply teaching agencies at the beginning of the year, I had two very explicit instructions:  No teens, preteens or anything remotely related to teens. (People always comment on how much patience I must have working with children, but let me set the record straight: …

Children Tales, Friendship, Gratitude, Psychology, Uncategorized, Working with Children

Day 31: Be Brave Challenge – Falling off the Gratitude Wagon

This morning I woke up feeling like I’d just slept under a thundercloud.😤Tried to meditate but it didn’t work so picked up my ‘ morning pages book’ that has been relatively untouched for the last…mmmm..28 days. Decided maybe I should start writing again…😓 (Clearly I haven’t reached equanimity status just yet.🤔) Then I decided to message …

ADHD, Children Tales

Day 25: Be Brave Challenge – Teacher Life Lessons

Today was one of those awesome teaching days when your students actually seem to be learning something 😂. Mmmm….well sort of 😎 I took one of my language groups this morning. One of the little boys who frankly has a few ADHD symptoms (let’s call him Eminem) actually seemed to be focusing and getting all his vocabulary …